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Xe vs. Xi: Discriminating word pairs

This is a thread for people to contribute their experience (please, no armchair theorizing!) with the differences between the introverted and extroverted directions of each of the functions in the form of word pairs. The idea is to distill our collective experience to provide a feel for how the functions actually play out as a supplement to the abstract descriptions and flawed tests.

Go ahead and specify if you think a word pair is only relevant in conjunction with another function.

I'll edit this OP to include contributions I don't disagree with as they come in.

Ne vs. Ni

Springy vs. dogged
Cognizant vs. starry-eyed
Including vs. excluding
Observing vs. envisioning
Chromatic vs. wraithlike
Ever-inquisitive vs. inquisitive-then-satisfied
From the one to the many vs. from the many to the one

Hey, I didn't say it had to be RL experience this time! You've got enough forum experience to contribute.

Not really. The problem is the way my mind works. I don't actually see my experiences clearly. I occasionally take one or two pieces of information and create an abstraction regarding a category, but most of the time I can't tell you where it came from, or how many examples have reinforced the idea (because I forget my specific experiences and only remember the theory I came up with to explain the experience at that time).

So essentially, my mind almost never holds on to my raw experiences. They're always discarded in favor of unverifiable theories that seem to explain them. The problem is that I don't know which parts of my beliefs are influenced by my armchair theorizing, other's armchair theorizing, and which parts are based on experience, because it all blends together in my head into a single internally consistent amalgamation. You're asking me to give information that's been sorted according to a dichotomy I don't use internally, and it would be impossible for me to go back and retroactively tag/sort all the mental processing I've done on this issue to fit your specifications. I'd have to start all over again, and it would be really hard.

Regardless, I'll try to give you what I can, but I cannot make any guarantees as to what it's based on, so it may be too tainted to use.

Not really. The problem is the way my mind works. I don't actually see my experiences clearly. I occasionally take one or two pieces of information and create an abstraction regarding a category, but most of the time I can't tell you where it came from, or how many examples have reinforced the idea (because I forget my specific experiences and only remember the theory I came up with to explain the experience at that time).

My mind actually works the same way. Though I feel I have considerable experience with applied MBTI by now, I nevertheless have a hard time coming up with these word pairs off the top of my head. The discriminatory nuances tend to only come to my mind when pondering a specific person's type. For instance, I came up with Ne springy vs. Ni dogged and Te no-nonsense vs. Ti academic when I was trying to crystallize my conviction that Ivy is an Ne and Te user rather than an Ni and Ti user.